It was early 2009, and I was still working in the walls of corporate America. I setup an account with the friendly little blue bird, named Twitter. It was from that moment I saw the power of the tweet and what it had in store for my life.
I didn’t think twice about the Twitter handle when I set it up. Continue Reading

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I'm sorry to be a sceptic but "It’s NOT about the 100k, it’s about the people" can't be true if you're also following 90k people. You have 100k followers because you follow 90k people. I find it annoying when people brag about the quantity of followers they have - like it's some medal or badge, or some indication of how good they are at social media - when the follower ratio is poor. Now if it were 100k while only follow 1k, I'd be impressed. Just my opinion.

Sorry...! TBH though I think yours is fine, Mark - I prefer to follow a few hundred but I know a few people who follow c. 1k and who drop-in/drop-out of their feed rather than to try and keep on top if it. I think that's fine. It's not like you're saying: "it’s about the people" but follow tens of thousands...

That's very true, she is indeed very positive and there are other good points in the article - reading back my comments (above), I feel like I might've been a bit harsh. But the point still stands: her Follow Ratio suggests that she has that many followers because of the number <i>she's</i> following. To put it another way: if everything else in that article were true but she wasn't following 90k people, I doubt she'd have 100k followers (e.g. if she were following only 1k then she might only have 10-20k followers).